IN 2025 WE ARE CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF THE PARISTAMEN CHARITY
The Paristamen Foundation (as it was originally) came into being by a Declaration of Trust signed on 5 April 1985. (We subsequently became The Paristamen CIO and more recently The Paristamen Charity – a SCIO: click here for details.)
This means that in April 2025 we marked 40 years of Paristamen grantmaking.
To celebrate this occasion we hosted a major event in Edinburgh on Friday 4 April 2025 with around 40 guests – mostly recent grant recipients.
We presented an overview of Paristamen over the last 40 years and five charities which had received Paristamen grants in the last three years spoke about their work and the benefits of our grants.
We also announced five special one-off Anniversary Grants of £2,000 each – these are unrestricted grants of additional funding to charities that have received Paristamen grants in the last three years.
To give participants more appreciation of our history and how we have operated, we issued a 12-page booklet to mark the anniversary.
At the end of the afternoon, participants joined the trustees in a reception with sparkling wine and an anniversary cake. The event was kindly hosted by Turcan Connell Solicitors.